Merkins
As a Brit who has to work with Americans on a regular basis, this exchange amused me:

American colleague: "Independence Day is next week, I'm looking forward to a day off. Do you celebrate Independence Day in England?"

Me: "Yes. Yes we do."
(Bids How much is that window in the doggy?, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 0:02, 6 replies)

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(Vigilante Man weeps because you're stupid., Fri 4 Mar 2011, 3:06, closed)

Ditto
But with them asking whether we celebrate Thanksgiving.
(Daragon, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 6:22, closed)

Surely
you've interacted with other Americans that don't make you facepalm.
( intesvensk can't recall when I last checked the newsletter, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 7:52, closed)

Don't Get Me Started.....

As a rule, Americans are super-specialists. In their own, tiny field, they're brilliant. Top bananas. But only in their tiny sub-speciality. Anything not *exactly* in their area of interest and their clueless. Even if that area is crucial to them being able to do their own job. I've know Yanks who only do DNS, another who does only User Accounts ( he resigned when Active Directory cam out as that wasn't his thing. he only did user accounts). Another who was a Windows 3.12 specialist because, for some arcane reason, we still had some legacy applications that would only run on Windows 3.12. He refused to even look at an NT4 workstation as that wasn't his job. You get the idea.

The rest of the world has specialists too but at least they know far more than their own little field. Especially the Europeans.

Of course this is a generalisation. I've also met some Merkin's who were absolute IT Gods. Knew a lot about an incredible range of IT related crap. Left me standing and I think I'm quite good.

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 11:22, closed)

Excellent. Probably like an Aussie asking us if we have a holiday on Australia Day.
(wino.NZ The Ayatollah of rock n' rolla..., Fri 4 Mar 2011, 9:16, closed)

The funniest thing about working with the Yanks is their pronunciation of the counties
Worcestershire & leicestershire.

War cester shire :\

Li cester shire :\

Cracks me up everytime.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Fri 4 Mar 2011, 11:58, closed)